Choptank Community Health System’s leadership team recently welcomed Bill Baxendale as Facilities Director. In this role, Baxendale will lead the maintenance, safety, and operational integrity of ...

I am a bit of a clean freak. I keep my home relatively pristine. Nevertheless, I recognize that the best things in life are messy. Families are messy. Relationships are messy. Friends are messy.

We were in Annapolis last week to celebrate a family milestone. A year ago, my wife’s son and his beloved headed out to Colorado, ostensibly to attend a couple of concerts. But that’s not all they did ...

In today’s 24-7 media coverage of current events in the political world, stories are regularly introduced as “breaking news with more details to follow.” That will most certainly be the case after the ...

Along with summer swimming comes ShoreRivers Bacteria Monitoring season. It is advised that people not swim 24-48 hours after a major rain. Every summer, ShoreRivers deploys a team of community ...

It’s sunrise near St. Michael’s and the late Turk Cannon, Sr. is out on the water. The Spy Newspapers may periodically employ the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the clarity and ...

Every Thursday, the Spy hosts a conversation with Al From and Craig Fuller on the most topical political news of the moment. This week, From and Fuller unpack the political stakes as both Senate ...

On Monday a young lady, riding an electric 2 wheeler, came to my front door. She, with a hand-held computer, wanted to sign me up for an extermination service to rid my home of any bugs. Her snappy ...

It started in 1986 in a tight-knit fiber cohort at Cranbrook Academy of Art. That’s where Anne Lindberg and Piper Shepard first met—two young artists drawn to textile, space, and the possibilities of ...

Each spring, Washington College awards the Sophie Kerr Prize—the nation’s largest literary award for undergraduates—to a student whose writing exemplifies both excellence and promise. This year, the ...

Nature saved three brilliant days for the 2025 Tea Party Festival and Monday’s Memorial Day observance in downtown Chestertown. Monday’s ceremony, honoring those who lost their lives in service to the ...

The first version of an American Memorial Day occurred in May 1868, three years after the end of the American Civil War. Then named Decoration Day, it only honored Union soldiers who died in that war.